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Modeling a Detailed Electric Guitar in Maya

by Paul Conner

In this Maya tutorial, we'll focus on advanced techniques for successfully modeling polygon forms. Software required: Maya 2015.

What you'll learn

In this Maya tutorial, we'll focus on advanced techniques for successfully modeling polygon forms. We'll concentrate on controlling surfaces and edge flow in polygon models. We'll also break down the forms into basic shapes, utilizing the tools that are available, thought processes of modeling the shapes and modeling for the production pipeline. You'll learn techniques for getting predictable results, modeling for smoothing at render time and where it all fits into the polygon modeling pipeline. By the end of this Maya training, you'll gain a better understanding of the pre-planning process, working with edge flow and breaking down shapes into smaller forms to get the correct amount of geometry. Software required: Maya 2015.

Table of contents

Introduction and Project Overview
1min
Modeling a Detailed Electric Guitar in Maya
1091mins

About the author

Paul Conner is a modeler and digital sculptor based in Denver Colorado. He has been working in the film and broadcast industries for over 20 years. Paul originally started teaching as a Maya Certified Trainer, but now is the Founder, Instructor, and Industry Relations Lead at the Digital Animation Center at the University of Colorado. He continues to do freelance work, and most recently, he was an IPAX Fellow at Sony Pictures Imageworks, where he had the pleasure of working with assets from The ... more

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